A lot of people ask how something as diverse and long lasting as religion have been created if God really doesn't exist. The following explanation not only makes perfect sense, but agrees with the Bible almost 100% (when look at it from the viewpoint of people 2000 years ago).
It's really quite simple too, and can be explained in one word... aliens. Aliens is one of those words that instantly makes people look at anything following it as either science fiction or absurd, but it really isn't if you take the time to think about it.
Here are our ancestors, 2000 years ago, with no knowlege that those points in the sky are really huge spheres of burning elements, even that there is other land in the world on the other side of the ocean. One day, some alien race decides to pay a visit. Can you imagine how any sort of technology a race capable of traveling through space like this would have? It would seem like magic even today, think of how people 2000 years ago saw it.
All the "miracles" like the parting of the water, the pillar of fire that swept up the roman army, the various healings and so on, can all be easily explained by advanced technology. Of course, these people would see these aliens as Gods (the aliens may even have sent just one representative to Earth, in the form of a human being or something). After all, what kind of being can part a sea or bring people back from death? A God of course. They had no way of knowing these were simply other beings from another planet, in their eyes they were true Gods in every sense of the word.
And not only miracles can be explained in this way. Angels for example could have been holograms. The fire of the holy spirit could have been any number of things (the aliens could have been tagging the apostles like lab specimens for all we know). Turning the river red could be easily done through the use of holograms or another type of illusionary effect.
When you look at it from this perspective it all makes perfect sense. Is it really that much harder to believe than a single omniscient being creating the entire universe in 6 days?
It's really quite simple too, and can be explained in one word... aliens. Aliens is one of those words that instantly makes people look at anything following it as either science fiction or absurd, but it really isn't if you take the time to think about it.
Here are our ancestors, 2000 years ago, with no knowlege that those points in the sky are really huge spheres of burning elements, even that there is other land in the world on the other side of the ocean. One day, some alien race decides to pay a visit. Can you imagine how any sort of technology a race capable of traveling through space like this would have? It would seem like magic even today, think of how people 2000 years ago saw it.
All the "miracles" like the parting of the water, the pillar of fire that swept up the roman army, the various healings and so on, can all be easily explained by advanced technology. Of course, these people would see these aliens as Gods (the aliens may even have sent just one representative to Earth, in the form of a human being or something). After all, what kind of being can part a sea or bring people back from death? A God of course. They had no way of knowing these were simply other beings from another planet, in their eyes they were true Gods in every sense of the word.
And not only miracles can be explained in this way. Angels for example could have been holograms. The fire of the holy spirit could have been any number of things (the aliens could have been tagging the apostles like lab specimens for all we know). Turning the river red could be easily done through the use of holograms or another type of illusionary effect.
When you look at it from this perspective it all makes perfect sense. Is it really that much harder to believe than a single omniscient being creating the entire universe in 6 days?
